Gate Lodge, Glengalliagh Hall, 22 Upper Galliagh Road, Londonderry, BT48 8LW

A one storey many gabled gate lodge with roughcast walls, colour washed with decorative panelled gables, slated roofs set beside gate piers and gates. The steeply pitched roofs give the lodge a greater impression of size than it actually has. The entrance elevation which is parallel to the avenue, has a projecting gabled porch with its axis following that of the main roof. The door without fanlight is boarded up as are all the windows of the dwelling. Thrust forward from the main wall there is a room projection, gabled and with a pair of single sash windows centred on the wall. On the flanking wall a narrow window of equal height allows, in the past, observation of approaching vehicles or carriages. The gable timber panelling consisting of a blank arcade of arched panels and above diagonal quatrefoil. The bargeboard straight and moulded. The north side has a pair of single sash windows, close together and in the gable a vigorous pattern of half timbered work comprising horizontals, verticals and curvy diagonals. The barges have good overhang, meeting in a finial and punctuated with protruding wedges. The barge tie beam has additional support from moulded timber corbels. The rear elevation has no windows and the south elevation, facing up the avenue, has 2 gables. There is a small gable to the projecting porch, one side of its roof runs into the gable of the main roof. Each gable is treated in half timber work similar to the north facing gable. The top half of the main gable has diagonal curving timbers and these are repeated in the smaller porch gable. Roofs are slated in dark asbestos slates with a Tudor style brick chimney centred on ridge. The chimney appears above the ridge as a rendered white colour washed piece and changes to 2 diagonal stacks in facing brick. The lodge is sited close to the avenue and adjoining Upper Galliagh Road. At right angles to the dwelling is the main entrance, consisting of 3 rockfaced limestone piers containing a pedestrian gate, next to the lodge, and carriage gates. Piers are square with flat pyramidal copings. From one pier a curved screen wall runs round to Upper Galliagh Road. This screen wall changes to a concrete block wall which bounds the grounds on the east side. The cast iron gates, painted black are decorated spiky flour-de-lis coloured in gold. There was a former outside toilet behind the projecting porch.